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UNITE STATES ATENT FFICEO MARY SCHNEIDER, on ST. LOUIS, nssonni.

WASHING-FLUID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 392,885, dated November 13, 1888.

Application filed February 29, 1888. Serial No. 265,69l. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter for Laundry Use in \Vashing Clothes, of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients,eombined in the proportions stated, viz: one gallon of water, two ounces Anthems nobil'is, (can1omile-flowers,) one-half ounec Zingiber oflicinale, ginger root,) and two ounces aqua ammonla.

The ingredients above set forth are boiled together until the strength is extracted from the root and flowers therein,and the fluid upon being strained off constitutes the washingfluid.

My composition is used in the following 20 manner: The clothes to be washed are, after soaped all over with ordinary washing-soap, and are then boiled in water containing onehalftea-spoonfnl of this compound to each four gallons of water.

- The advantages of my composition are that by its use all dirt stains and discolorations are removed from the clothes without the use of a wash-board or rubbing or scouring ofany kind.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The herein-described co m position of matter, consisting of water, extract of Anihcmis nobilis, (camomile-ilowers,) extract of Zingiber oflicimile, (ginger-root,) and aqua-ammonia, in the proportions and for the purposes herein speeified.

MARY SCHNEIDER.

WVitnesses:

J. O. H. STEVENSON, T. S. STUMPs. 

